I’m always looking for albums that take me a while to figure out, music that still surprises me on the umpteenth listen. Sometimes the search for this kind of album takes me down obnoxious paths, but it’s usually worth the risk, because it almost always leads me to discover musicians who can really shred, and [...]
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If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog to 500 posts, I don’t think I would have believed you. But here we are: five hundred posts of wordy review-y media junkie pop culture goodness, awwww yeah! As it turns out, not giving a shit about whether people give [...]
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Wow, where the heck did December go? One second I’m flying off to Iowa, the next it’s almost 2012! At the end of NaNoWriMo I declared December “getting my shit together” month, but I seem to have only partially succeeded. I blame part of it on day job discombobulation: I was switched from a Monday [...]
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Ooh, this is my new favorite album: miRthkon is an Oakland-based sextet, who describe themselves as coming from a “rich tradition of anti-tradition.” I find this an apt phrase, as they do seem to be the descendants of a long line of inventive, genre-mashing artists. The music on Vehicle (2009) blends prog rock, metal, funk, [...]
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In honor of NaNoWriMo, here’s a new Garage Band theme song I concocted for a nonexistent science fiction series that probably involves nanotechnology, depending on your imagination. I’m calling it “Year of the Machine Plague.” Enjoy, and happy noveling! Related Posts:Back to the ScheduleHoliday Break (with Unseasonal Music)!FemtoWriMoNaNoWriMo 2011Taking a Break
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Beck, Guero (2005): I find it handy to keep Beck albums around; he’s one of those artists who services my tastes without offending those of my friends, who might find my more aggressive stuff too painful to listen to. Beck consistently produces solid straight-up alternative pop, with a little funk and rap mixed in. Guero [...]
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I had a crappy week at work, and I’ve been discombobulated with the whole “between novels” thing. This all combined to put me into a weird, punchy, bad mood lately. So last week I redirected my aimlessness at Garage Band to piece together a new “theme song for a TV show that doesn’t exist” — [...]
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This concert film features over two hours of Frank Zappa music from the early 1980s…so yeah, most of you can stop reading this! Even a lot of diehard Zappaphiles aren’t huge fans of his stuff from this era. But I’m actually rather fond of the ensemble from The Torture Never Stops (1981), especially the rhythm [...]
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A few new albums seem to have fallen into my iTunes collection recently: Empty Spaces, Buckethead: How can you not love a top secret ninja guitar shredder who wears a hockey mask and a KFC helmet? Oh? Well, I like him! I have several of the incredibly prolific Buckethead’s releases in my catalogue, some that [...]
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